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“You shall teach them diligently to your children.” --Deuteronomy 6:7 How can you raise children who love and obey God? With passion and persistence. In our verse today, the Hebrew word diligently means to penetrate, like the cutting of a knife. As a parent, your teaching must be strong enough that it penetrates. Why is this so critical? As a parent, you must be passionate about what you believe because you are competing against messages from movies, music, friends, peers, marketing campaigns, and so much more. Is it the passion of your life to see your children grow up to share your faith? You must do everything you can to teach them with conviction so that it’s credible and believable. You and I must be persistent and consistent as believers. In fact, the impact of your passionate teaching will last beyond your children. Deuteronomy 6:2 says, “That you may fear the LORD your God, you and your son and your son’s son, by keeping all his statues and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life….” You and I are responsible, not only for this generation, but for the next and those that follow. Your legacy will live far beyond you and your children. Be passionate about what that legacy will be. As a parent, you must be passionate about what you believe because you are competing against so many other messages!

Monday, October 8, 2018

The Key to Victory

by Dr. Paul Chappell

“Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place. For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?”

2 Corinthians 2:14–16

It was June 5, 1944, the day before the Allied forces launched the Normandy invasion to begin the liberation of Western Europe from the Nazis. All the plans were in place. Thousands of ships and planes were ready to carry tens of thousands of men into battle. It would be the largest sea invasion in human history. No one knew whether it would be possible to dislodge the heavy German defenses, and the direction of the war was hanging in the balance. The Allied troops were under the command of General Dwight Eisenhower. He spent some of the last hours before the invasion started with the men of the 101st Airborne, who would be parachuting behind enemy lines to create diversions and undermine Germany’s ability to respond to the attack. Facing these courageous young men, Eisenhower simply said, “Full victory—nothing else.”

Scripture frequently refers to and pictures the Christian life as a battle. But our war is different from the wars of this world. The ultimate outcome has already been determined for us. And while we face a vicious and powerful foe in Satan, one we cannot overcome in our own strength, we do not have to fight him alone. We lack sufficient power to defeat him, but Jesus has already overthrown his kingdom through His death and resurrection. And with the power of the Holy Spirit living and working in us, we can be victorious.

Today’s Growth Principle: 

The victory has already been won for us by Jesus Christ—it is our job to claim it and live in it.